The Florida Senate

SB 984: Firefighter Cancer Benefits and Prevention

GENERAL BILL by DiCeglie ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Smith

Firefighter Cancer Benefits and Prevention; Revising conditions under which a specified one-time payment must be made by a former employer upon a firefighter’s cancer diagnosis; requiring a former employer to provide death benefits for a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; deleting the requirement for the Division of State Fire Marshal to adopt rules for establishing employer cancer prevention best practices, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  12/19/2025	Senate	• Filed
  1/7/2026	Senate	• Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations
  1/13/2026	Senate	• Introduced
  1/22/2026	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/27/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
  1/27/2026	Senate	• Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
  1/28/2026	Senate	• Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability

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• SB 984, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 12/19/2025 at 9:49 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Community Affairs (Pre-Meeting) 1/26/2026 (pdf) Community Affairs (Post-Meeting) 1/28/2026 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 813	Firefighter Cancer Benefits and Prevention	Busatta	Identical	Last Action: 1/21/2026 H Now in Budget Committee

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  1/27/2026 3:30 PM	Community Affairs	8 Yeas - 0 Nays

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  112.1816	Firefighters; cancer diagnosis.	Page 1 (pdf)

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